Increasing the known biodiversity of cnidarian parasites of bryconid fishes from South America: two novel Myxobolus species with ultrastructure and ssrDNA-based phylogeny

Autor: Mateus M. Carriero, Edson A. Adriano, Gabriel S. A. Moreira, Antônio Augusto Mendes Maia, Juliana Naldoni, Marcia R.M. Silva
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Parasitology Research. 119:3627-3637
ISSN: 1432-1955
0932-0113
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-020-06863-5
Popis: This study increases the known biodiversity of cnidarian parasites in neotropical bryconid fishes. Two novel Myxobolus species are described based on morphology, ultrastructure and small subunit ribosomal DNA (ssrDNA) sequencing: Myxobolus vetuschicanus n. sp. infecting fins of Salminus franciscanus and Myxobolus mineirus n. sp. infecting the mesentery of Brycon orthotaenia from the Sao Francisco River basin, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Ultrastructural analysis of the two species revealed an asynchronous sporogenesis process, with germinative cells and young developmental stages of myxospores in the periphery of the plasmodia. In M. vetuschicanus n. sp., the plasmodia were surrounded by a layer of fibroblasts and in M. mineirus n. sp., the plasmodial membrane had direct contact with the host tissue. The phylogenetic analysis based on the ssrDNA of Henneguya/Myxobolus species showed that the two novel Myxobolus species grouped in subclades together with other parasite species of bryconid fishes.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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